The hard way

Finished off the second ending of Honest Hearts, after exploring a bit more.

I decided to track down all the old logs of the "father in the cave", a survivor of the war who spent the next 53 years living in the caves of that area. The logs describes all the different hardships that he goes through over the years, from survivor's guilt, to fending off Vault 22 jerks, to losing his new wife and child. It adds a lot more weight to the DLC with just segments of text and shows another side of the wasteland after the war.

Then I did the escape ending, which had a lot more side quests and things to do than the fight one. The ending was mostly positive this time too, except that the trading company still went under and there was no word of what happened with the burned man. After it was over I leveled up and picked a new perk that came with one of the DLCs, The Long Haul, which lets me fast travel even when over burdened (which was handy since I had 100+ pounds of new loot to drag back).

Next it's off to Old World Blues!